Melania could have been a deportation priority under Trumps new immigration rules

[Miles Archer]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/melania-could-have-been-a-deportation-priority-under-trumps-new-immigration-rules/

Going by President Donald Trump's new immigration rules, Melania Trump would have been a priority for deportation for accepting paid modeling jobs while on a tourist visa in the 1990s, immigration attorneys said Friday. Hasan Shafiqullah, deputy attorney in charge of the immigration law unit at the Legal Aid Society, said in an interview with Slate that Melania Trump could have been at serious risk of being deported had her husband's order been imposed that time.

"If the current executive order on interior enforcement and the related Homeland Security memoranda on interior enforcement had been in effect at that time [1996], then she would have certainly been an enforcement priority," he said.

Cheryl David, a New York City immigration specialist, also told Slate that if the first lady did in fact work in the U.S. while using a tourist visa, she "definitely violated her status, and if it came to immigration's attention, yeah, they certainly could put her into removal proceedings."

Melania Trump, then Knauss, was born in 1970 and traveled to the U.S. as a visitor. She received $20,056 for 10 modeling jobs, and it was only seven weeks after her arrival that she managed to acquire legal permission to work in the U.S., according to detailed contracts, accounting ledgers and other related documents from 20 years ago,

[KewlKat]

1. I thought she could still be deported since what she did was illegal?

She'd probably be happier with her son in her own country away from the scandalous con man.

[Doreen]

2. How do we know Trump is not knowingly making rules that

would send her back? She is beyond the age limit he likes. If she was deported he could easily divorce her and get himself younger ass.

[democratisphere]

3. Melania will request to be deported if she has continue on with the miserable bastard.

[gopiscrap]

5. She still should be

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. I really doubt there is a story here

She almost certainly entered the US on a B1 and not a B2 visa and soon after obtained an H-1B3. These affairs were almost certainly handled for her professionally by a modelling agency.

[area51]

7. "Melania could have been a deportation priority ...."

s/could/should/